https://youtu.be/_tw4NfrN5jo We might be only a week and a half into the season, but it’s NEVER too early to start obsessing over which players were the “steals” of the draft. This process of determining which front offices displayed extreme amounts of prescience in cashing in their non-lottery draft picks, and which front offices completely bungled…
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Jalen Brunson 31 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (1/3/2021)
https://youtu.be/Pf3tB-LRAU0 I was mentally preparing to write the tale of how Jalen Brunson was welcomed into the Hall of the Thirty Point Scorers by none other than Carlos Delfino, but there was a small fragment of memory residing deep in the furthest, most disused corner of my brain: had Brunson previously scored thirty in his…
Read MoreKeldon Johnson Career High 26 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2021)
https://youtu.be/suGfB1CCwaY I would say that, most of the time, fanbases are decidedly inaccurate in their assessment of their own players. Putting on the homer goggles will usually present your eyeballs with a wildly distorted vision of reality, and the problem with all fanbases is that the homer goggles are permanently attached. There’s no taking those…
Read MoreOtto Porter 28 Points Full Highlights (12/31/2020)
https://youtu.be/tbLSwI3HtoU With the way the Bulls got boomed in the first two games of the season, I was starting to have my doubts at to whether they’d win a game this season. They might not have egg-man as their coach anymore, but even without his malign presence causing everything to be roughly 50 percent worse…
Read MoreThomas Bryant 28 Points/3 Blocks Full Highlights (12/31/2020)
https://youtu.be/-NUMPHJXoCo New Year’s Eve is not normally a big deal at the DownToBuck household. The most exciting thing I do is I go the supermarket, pick out a random flavor of juice-from-concentrate, and then mix it with Fresca to make a big bowl of punch. Then I sip the punch (which is decidedly non-alcoholic, by…
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